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2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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6 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
8
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
12 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
13 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
14 We thank them for their generosity as well.
15
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
17 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
18 please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is
19 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
20 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
21
22 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
23 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
24 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
28
29 @itemize @bullet
30 @item
31 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
32 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
33 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
34 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
35 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
36 news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
37 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
38 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
39 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
40 @file{gnus-soup.el}.
41
42 @item
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
45
46 @item
47 Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
49 files.
50
51 @item
52 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
53 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
54 Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
55 interface. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
56 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
57 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
58 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
59
60 @item
61 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
62 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
63 in the buffer.
64
65 @item
66 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
67 implemented support for X11.
68
69 @item
70 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
71 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
72 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
73 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
74 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
75 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
76 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
77
78 @item
79 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
80 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
81
82 @item
83 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
84 Emacs.
85
86 @item
87 Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
88 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
89 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
90 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
91
92 @item
93 Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
94 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
95 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
96 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
97 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
98 ERC distribution).
99
100 @item
101 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
102 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
103 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
104
105 @item
106 Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
107
108 @item
109 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
110 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
111
112 @item
113 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
114 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
115
116 @item
117 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
118 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
119 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
120 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
121 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
122
123 @item
124 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
125 buffer.
126
127 @item
128 Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
129 that learns landmarks.
130
131 @item
132 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
133 output.
134
135 @item
136 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
137 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
138 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
139 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
140 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
141 the ``generic mode'' feature.
142
143 @item
144 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
145 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
146 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
147
148 @item
149 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
150 Emacs's outline modes.
151
152 @item
153 David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
154 tabular data.
155
156 @item
157 W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
158 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
159
160 @item
161 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
162 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
163
164 @item
165 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
166 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
167 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
168
169 @item
170 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
171 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
172 Lisp.
173
174 @item
175 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
176 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
177
178 @item
179 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
180 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
181 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
182
183 @item
184 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
185 for Korean Hanja.
186
187 @item
188 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
189 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
190
191 @item
192 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
193 improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
194 Großjohann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
195 mode for wrapping long lines.
196
197 @item
198 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
199 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
200 Emacs's dumping procedures.
201
202 @item
203 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
204
205 @item
206 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
207 use it, Snake and Tetris.
208
209 @item
210 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
211 it is analysed for spam.
212
213 @item
214 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
215 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
216
217 @item
218 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
219
220 @item
221 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
222 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
223
224 @item
225 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
226 files as ``thumbnails.''
227
228 @item
229 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
230 (@file{notifications.el}).
231
232 @item
233 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
234 source tree to HTML.
235
236 @item
237 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
238 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
239
240 @item
241 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
242 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
243
244 @item
245 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
246 text replace the current selection.
247
248 @item
249 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
250
251 @item
252 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
253
254 @item
255 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
256 cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
257 (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
258 todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart
259 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip
260 Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
261 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley,
262 and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components.
263
264 @item
265 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
266 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
267
268 @item
269 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
270 pong game.
271
272 @item
273 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
274
275 @item
276 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
277
278 @item
279 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
280
281 @item
282 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
283 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
284 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
285
286 @item
287 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
288
289 @item
290 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
291
292 @item
293 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
294 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
295
296 @item
297 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
298 code.
299
300 @item
301 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
302 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
303
304 @item
305 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
306 Language source code.
307
308 @item
309 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
310 Morse code.
311
312 @item
313 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
314 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
315 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
316
317 @item
318 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
319
320 @item
321 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
322 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
323 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
324 location in files between editing sessions.
325
326 @item
327 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
328 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
329 together.
330
331 @item
332 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
333 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
334 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
335 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
336
337 @item
338 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
339
340 @item
341 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
342
343 @item
344 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
345 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
346 flow control.
347
348 @item
349 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
350 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
351
352 @item
353 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
354 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
355
356 @item
357 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
358 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
359 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
360 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
361 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
362 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
363 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
364 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
365
366 @item
367 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
368 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
369 last-change time stamps in files.
370
371 @item
372 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
373 Gnus.
374
375 @item
376 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
377 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
378 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
379 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
380 keyboard macros.
381
382 @item
383 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
384 using a Lisp-like syntax.
385
386 @item
387 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
388 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
389 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
390 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
391 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
392 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
393 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
394
395 @item
396 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
397 taking the file name from the buffer.
398
399 @item
400 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
401
402 @item
403 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
404 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
405 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
406
407 @item
408 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
409 as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
410
411 @item
412 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
413 related to the currently visited file.
414
415 @item
416 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
417
418 @item
419 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
420 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
421 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
422 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
423 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
424 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
425 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
426 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
427 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
428
429 @item
430 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
431
432 @item
433 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
434 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
435 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
436 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
437 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
438 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
439 files and buffers without editing them.
440
441 @item
442 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
443 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
444
445 @item
446 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
447 format of Unicode.
448
449 @item
450 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
451
452 @item
453 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
454 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
455 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
456
457 @item
458 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
459
460 @item
461 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
462 expansion package.
463
464 @item
465 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
466 DVI documents.
467
468 @item
469 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
470 template instantiations.
471
472 @item
473 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
474
475 @item
476 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
477 browser to display a URL.
478
479 @item
480 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
481 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
482 Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
483 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
484 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
485 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
486 Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
487 Kevin Greiner, Kai Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
488 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
489 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
490 Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
491
492 @item
493 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
494
495 @item
496 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
497
498 @item
499 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
500 command-line.
501
502 @item
503 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
504 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
505 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
506 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
507
508 @item
509 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
510
511 @item
512 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
513 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
514
515 @item
516 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
517 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
518 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
519 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
520 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
521 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
522 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
523 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
524 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
525 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
526
527 @item
528 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
529 automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
530
531 @item
532 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
533 control system.
534
535 @item
536 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
537 mail with SMTP.
538
539 @item
540 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
541 control system.
542
543 @item
544 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
545 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
546 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
547 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
548
549 @item
550 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
551 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
552
553 @item
554 Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
555 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
556 authentication support.
557
558 @item
559 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
560 buffers.
561
562 @item
563 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
564 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
565 Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
566
567 @item
568 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
569 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
570 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
571 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
572 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
573
574 @item
575 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
576 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
577 Emacs.
578
579 @item
580 Karel Klí@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
581 Security-Enchanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
582
583 @item
584 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
585 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
586 and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
587
588 @item
589 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
590 on-the-fly syntax checking.
591
592 @item
593 David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
594 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
595
596 @item
597 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
598 inline images.
599
600 @item
601 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
602 menu support.
603
604 @item
605 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
606 R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
607 @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
608 program.
609
610 @item
611 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
612
613 @item
614 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
615 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
616
617 @item
618 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
619 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
620 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
621 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
622 objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
623 He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
624
625 @item
626 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
627 editing JavaScript.
628
629 @item
630 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
631 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
632 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
633 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
634 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
635 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
636 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
637 whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
638 used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
639
640 @item
641 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
642 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
643
644 @item
645 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
646 Emacs Lisp programs.
647
648 @item
649 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
650 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
651 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
652
653 @item
654 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
655 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
656 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
657 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
658 that show the same buffer.
659
660 @item
661 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
662 files.
663
664 @item
665 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
666 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
667 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
668 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
669
670 @item
671 Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs to
672 run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously.
673
674 @item
675 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
676 control annotation.
677
678 @item
679 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
680 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
681 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
682 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
683 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
684 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
685 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
686 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
687 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
688 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
689 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
690 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
691 by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
692 for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for
693 automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors;
694 @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
695 @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol
696 completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and
697 @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar.
698 With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar
699 version control system.
700
701 @item
702 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
703 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
704 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
705 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
706 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
707 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
708 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
709 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
710
711 @item
712 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
713 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
714
715 @item
716 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
717 simple substitution ciphers.
718
719 @item
720 Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
721 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
722 used by the @code{calendar} package.
723
724 @item
725 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
726 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
727 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
728
729 @item
730 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
731
732 @item
733 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
734 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
735
736 @item
737 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
738 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
739 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
740 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
741
742 @item
743 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
744 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
745 bibliography files.
746
747 @item
748 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
749 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
750
751 @item
752 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
753
754 @item
755 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
756 blackbox game.
757
758 @item
759 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
760 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
761 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
762 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
763 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
764 for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
765 with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
766 command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
767 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
768 files.
769
770 @item
771 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
772
773 @item
774 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
775 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
776 modes.
777
778 @item
779 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
780 command with its arguments.
781
782 @item
783 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
784 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
785 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
786 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
787 used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
788 terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
789 essential utility.
790
791 @item
792 Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
793 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
794 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
795 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
796 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
797 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
798 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
799 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
800
801 @item
802 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added
803 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
804 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
805 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
806 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
807 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
808 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
809 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
810 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
811 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; and @file{mpc.el}, a
812 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''.
813
814 @item
815 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
816 elsewhere.
817
818 @item
819 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
820 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
821
822 @item
823 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
824 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
825 URLs.
826
827 @item
828 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
829 @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
830 @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
831 @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
832
833 @item
834 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
835 a mode for editing makefiles.
836
837 @item
838 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
839 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
840
841 @item
842 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
843 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
844 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
845 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
846 the status of version-controlled directories.
847
848 @item
849 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
850
851 @item
852 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
853 history between Emacs sessions.
854
855 @item
856 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
857 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
858
859 @item
860 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
861 support.
862
863 @item
864 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
865 generating JSON files.
866
867 @item
868 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
869
870 @item
871 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
872 testing.
873
874 @item
875 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
876 splitting mechanism.
877
878 @item
879 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
880 embedded text-based tables.
881
882 @item
883 Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
884 the MIX assembly language.
885
886 @item
887 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
888 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
889 game to fill all squares on the field.
890
891 @item
892 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
893
894 @item
895 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
896 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
897
898 @item
899 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
900 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
901 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
902 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
903 package.
904
905 @item
906 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
907
908 @item
909 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
910 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
911
912 @item
913 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
914 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
915 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
916 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
917 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
918 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
919 for simultaneous two-column editing.
920
921 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
922 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
923 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
924 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
925 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
926
927 @item
928 Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
929 1460) interface for Emacs.
930
931 @item
932 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
933 widgets.
934
935 @item
936 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
937 support for PO translation files.
938
939 @item
940 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
941 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
942
943 @item
944 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
945 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
946 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
947 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
948 structures.
949
950 @item
951 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
952 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
953 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
954
955 @item
956 Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
957 for editing Fortran code.
958
959 @item
960 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
961 bibliography files by keyword.
962
963 @item
964 Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
965 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
966 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
967 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
968 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
969 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
970 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
971 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
972 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
973 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
974 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
975 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
976 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
977 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
978
979 @item
980 Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
981 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
982 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
983 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
984 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
985 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
986 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
987 F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
988 Gore.
989
990 @item
991 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
992 system's designated mail client.
993
994 @item
995 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
996 of the current function in the mode line.
997
998 @item
999 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
1000 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
1001 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
1002 VT line of terminals.
1003
1004 @item
1005 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1006 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
1007 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1008 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
1009
1010 @item
1011 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1012 into ``handwriting.''
1013
1014 @item
1015 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1016
1017 @item
1018 Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1019 DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
1020
1021 @item
1022 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1023 configurations so you can move back to them.
1024
1025 @item
1026 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1027 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1028
1029 @item
1030 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1031 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
1032 support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1033
1034 @item
1035 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1036 references in Info files.
1037
1038 @item
1039 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1040 dynamic word completion.
1041
1042 @item
1043 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1044
1045 @item
1046 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1047 message signatures.
1048
1049 @item
1050 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1051 sessions within Emacs.
1052
1053 @item
1054 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1055 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1056 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1057
1058 @item
1059 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1060 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1061
1062 @item
1063 Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1064
1065 @item
1066 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1067 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1068
1069 @item
1070 Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1071
1072 @item
1073 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1074 Solitaire game.
1075
1076 @item
1077 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1078 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1079 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1080 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1081 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1082 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1083 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
1084
1085 @item
1086 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1087
1088 @item
1089 Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1090 @file{TODO} list files.
1091
1092 @item
1093 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1094 as you type.
1095
1096 @item
1097 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1098 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1099
1100 @item
1101 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1102 commercial email.
1103
1104 @item
1105 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1106 recent editing changes.
1107
1108 @item
1109 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1110 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1111 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1112 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1113 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1114
1115 @item
1116 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1117
1118 @item
1119 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1120 mostly-constant data.
1121
1122 @item
1123 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1124 help for key bindings.
1125
1126 @item
1127 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1128
1129 @item
1130 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1131 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1132
1133 @item
1134 Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1135
1136 @item
1137 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1138 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1139 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1140
1141 @item
1142 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1143 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1144
1145 @item
1146 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1147 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1148
1149 @item
1150 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1151 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1152 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1153 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1154 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1155 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1156 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1157 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1158
1159 @item
1160 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1161 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1162 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1163
1164 @item
1165 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1166 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1167
1168 @item
1169 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1170 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1171
1172 @item
1173 Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
1174 that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
1175
1176 @item
1177 Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1178 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1179 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1180 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1181 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1182 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1183 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1184
1185 @item
1186 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1187 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1188
1189 @item
1190 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1191 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1192
1193 @item
1194 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1195 buffers.
1196
1197 @item
1198 Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1199 editing text in Slovak language.
1200
1201 @item
1202 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1203 the keyboard.
1204
1205 @item
1206 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1207 image files as ``thumbnails.''
1208
1209 @item
1210 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1211 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1212 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1213 support.
1214
1215 @item
1216 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1217
1218 @item
1219 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1220 numbers in the left margin.
1221
1222 @item
1223 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1224 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1225 subprocess.
1226
1227 @item
1228 Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
1229 bug reports.
1230
1231 @item
1232 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1233
1234 @item
1235 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1236 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1237 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1238 and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1239 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1240
1241 @item
1242 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1243 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1244 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1245 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1246 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1247 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1248 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1249 time zones.
1250
1251 @item
1252 Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1253
1254 @item
1255 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1256 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1257 (q.v.@:).
1258
1259 @item
1260 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1261
1262 @item
1263 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1264 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1265 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1266
1267 @item
1268 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1269 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1270 providing electric accent keys.
1271
1272 @item
1273 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1274
1275 @item
1276 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
1277 working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
1278 C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
1279 Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler
1280 for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual
1281 pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
1282 lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
1283 reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
1284 quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
1285
1286 @item
1287 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1288 grammar files.
1289
1290 @item
1291 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1292 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1293 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1294 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1295 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1296 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1297 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1298 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1299 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1300 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1301 for use under MS-DOS.
1302
1303 @item
1304 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
1305 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1306 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1307 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1308 from Jamie Zawinski.
1309
1310 @item
1311 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1312 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1313
1314 @item
1315 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1316 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1317 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1318 time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support;
1319 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1320 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1321 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1322 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1323 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
1324
1325 @item
1326 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1327 selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1328 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1329
1330 @item
1331 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1332
1333 @item
1334 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1335 making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
1336 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
1337 MH-E components.
1338
1339 @item
1340 Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1341 merging two versions of a file.
1342
1343 @item
1344 Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1345 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1346
1347 @item
1348 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
1349 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
1350
1351 @item
1352 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1353 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
1354
1355 @item
1356 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1357 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1358 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1359
1360 @item
1361 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1362
1363 @item
1364 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1365 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1366 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1367 terminal.
1368
1369 @item
1370 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1371 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1372 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1373 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1374
1375 @item
1376 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1377 zone out in front of Emacs.
1378
1379 @item
1380 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1381 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1382 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1383 @file{rxvt.el}.
1384
1385 @item
1386 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1387 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1388 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1389 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1390 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1391 for tar files.
1392
1393 @item
1394 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1395
1396 @item
1397 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1398 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1399 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1400 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1401 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1402 other Gnus components.
1403
1404 @item
1405 Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1406
1407 @item
1408 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1409
1410 @item
1411 Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1412 VI text editor.
1413
1414 @item
1415 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1416 with visual feedback.
1417
1418 @end itemize